Quoting Spartanicus <mk98762@gmail.com>:
> Following your reasoning it would be ok to omit
> a full stop after the last sentence in the paragraph preceding another
> since the latter paragraph makes it clear that the last sentence in the
> preceding paragraph has ended.
Not all paragraphs necessarily end in a full stop, though. If it's a
paragraph preceding a list, it may well end in a colon. Or it may need
an exclamation or question mark, etc. Regardless, at least a line
break is present when you copy/paste, which distinguishes the end of a
paragraph. Inline quotes, on the other hand, are not clearly delimited
when copy/pasting if the quotes aren't included.
> In support of the notion that the standard numbering on an ordered list
> is mere presentation
But the fact that an ordered list is ordered, rather than unordered,
does have semantic implications which should be denoted somehow,
regardless of presentation.
> is if you specify "ol li{display:inline}" then the
> numbering disappears and there's no way to bring the standard numbering
> back.
That's a presentation choice, and should not change the fact that the
list is ordered and when copy/pasting as text, this fact should be
maintained somehow, IMHO.
P
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